The Orville Season 2, Episode 14: The Road Not Taken
This week on The Orville, it's the big Season 2 finale!The Road Not Taken is the "unofficial" second half of a two part story begun last week in Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow. It takes place in...
View ArticleSeventeen Ways HBO Can End The "Game Of Thrones' TV Series
I first posted this way back in 2015, but now that Game Of Thrones is almost over I figured it was worth a repeat.Note that some of these jokes haven't aged well, since a sh*t ton of characters that I...
View ArticleR.I.P. Peter Mayhew
Sad new for Star Wars fans— Peter Mayhew, aka Chewbacca the Wookiee, died April 30th at the age of 74. Damn.Mayhew was born in Surrey, England in 1944. An overactive pituitary gland caused him to grow...
View ArticleBring On Season 3!
Good News, Everyone!Just a couple hours after I posted my review of the Season 2 finale, Fox FINALLY, at long, long last, announced they'd renewed The Orville for Season 3! Huzzah!It's about freakin'...
View ArticleHappy (I Guess?) 20th Anniversary To The Phantom Menace
The Beginning Of The End, and the Long, Slow Downward Spiral. Believe it or not, The Phantom Menace was released exactly TWENTY YEARS ago today, on May 19,1999.I vividly recall Star Wars fans working...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Art Of Movie Poster Design: Escape Plan: The Extractors
What the hell happened to the art of movie poster design? This week I saw this wonderful poster for the upcoming Sylvester Stallone movie, Escape Plan: The Extractors.As hard as it is to believe, this...
View ArticleIn Space, No One Can Hear You Celebrate The 40th Anniversary Of ALIEN
Happy 40th Anniversary to Ridley Scott's awesome sci-fi/horror masterpiece, ALIEN. Forty years? That can't possibly be right. I can clearly remember going to see it in the theater twenty years ago at...
View ArticleC-3POXL
This week Vanity Fair released a crap ton of behind the scenes photos from Star Wars: Episode IX or whatever the hell it's called, including this shot of C-3PO.Hmm... I've been staring at photos of...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Art Of Movie Poster Design: Rambo: Last Blood
Wow, in the past week or so there's been a goldmine of horrible, horrible movie posters released. It's honestly hard to keep up with all the badness on display.Like this one, for example. Hey look,...
View ArticleIt Came From The Cineplex: Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame was written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and directed by the Russo Brothers (Anthony & Joe).The four of them have become something of a well-oiled machine at Marvel...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Art Of Movie Poster Design: Terminator: Dark Fate
Sigh... Another day, another putrid movie poster. Seems like there's been a veritable plague of awful designs lately. Case in point: This poster for the upcoming Terminator: Dark Fate, the latest...
View ArticleHappy 50th, Um... Cancellation Anniversary To Star Trek
On this date (June 3rd) in 1969, Star Trek closed out its third season with its last-ever episode, Turnabout Intruder (aka the one where a crazy broad switches bodies with Captain Kirk). That was a...
View ArticleFrom The Earth To The Mars
If you're like me, you're so tired of hearing about the antics of our embarrassment-in-chief that it makes you want to vomit with rage, and you're doing your best to forget he even exists.That said, I...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 5, Episode 18: Godspeed
This week on The Flash we get a fair to middling episode that finally details Nora's origin story. Unfortunately it's marred somewhat by budget limitations, a MAJOR problem with the sequence of events...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Art Of Movie Poster Design: Wonder Woman 1984
Sigh... Another day, another putrid movie poster. What the hell's going on over there in Hollywood's various design departments? Seems like there's been a veritable plague of god-awful designs in the...
View ArticleOne Banana, Two Banana, Three Banana, NO!
Hard to believe, but this week there's actually news on The Banana Splits front!For those of you too young to remember (which is likely ALL of you), The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was a Saturday...
View ArticleThe Flash Season 5, Episode 19: Snow Pack
This week on The Flash we get an episode that's chock full of plot, as by my count there're at least three main storylines going on simultaneously. Unfortunately none of them matter, as they're all...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Art Of Movie Poster Design: Spider-Man: Far From Home
Man, the hits, er, I mean the horribly designed movie posters just keep comin.' I don't know what the hell's going on, but so far Summer 2019 has a been an absolute goldmine of god-awful lobby...
View ArticleSnip Tenth Anniversary!
Hard to believe, but today marks the tenth anniversary of my decision to go cable free! I officially cut the cord way back on June 25, 2009!And you know what? I still don't miss it a bit!I grew up in a...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Art Of Movie Poster Design: Some Actual GOOD Examples!
For the past month or so I've been obsessively complaining about the sorry state of current movie poster design. 99% of it is pure, undiluted crap that would embarrass a first year art student. When I...
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